From the article “Here traditionalism and identity are fused together such that disrupting one threatens the other. Any demographic change (particularly immigration from Muslim-majority and non-White countries, exacerbated in the public perception by low birth rates) is viewed as a direct challenge to identity and tradition.”
So maybe the better word is “strategic conversatism” as per the article.
Conservatism in the US is not what conservatism in France is. Conservatism in Mexico is not what conservatism in Brazil is.
Putin's version of conservatism, as mentioned in the article, is only applicable to Russia and countries with similar culture.
Comparing Trump to Putin is like comparing Nixon to Brezhnev.
Besides that I think that Putin made genuinely smart strategical steps to ensure that nobody will get between him and Ukraine... How it will turn out we yet have to see.
Cornering a leader with nuclear capabilities benefits nobody and can get dangerous, leaving him with nothing to lose. I think Trump wanted to use Russia to counter China.
From the center of strategic and international studies. It describes how the same ideology (white male christian) worldview is connected to Putin and Trump, and how the West is viewed as decadent through the moral lens of the fundamentalist churches in both the US and the Russian orthodox church.